Tax Dollars

To any Dallas-area people reading, here's one to file under So Where do the Tax Dollars Go, Anyway?:

For two weeks, we have had no heat in our classroom. The majority of the school (built in the 1930s) is on a huge, beastly heat/AC generator that is controlled by the fools downtown. My room and the one next to me, however, share a small heater that's controlled in my classroom.

Two weeks ago today, it stopped working. Our maintenance people reported it to the headquarters downtown, and were basically told that the prospect of us receiving a new motor [that's what's broken] this school year was remote. I mean, please! These are little children we're talking about, trying to learn, trying to study, trying to take the !@#@$ TAKS test, and they're forced to sit in a room that is as cold as it is outside all day long. It's going to be, what, 38 for a high today? We can pay the superintendent half a million dollars a year, but we can't buy a stupid motor so that my students don't freeze?

Next week we have parent conferences, and if the heater isn't fixed by then, I'm going to try to get the parents to go downtown and complain. The last thing the district wants is 20 irate mommies at their offices screaming at them.